Fourteen people are on trial for the 1987 assassination in which Sankara and 12 others were cut down in a hail of bullets at a top government meeting. Read More...
The slaying of Sankara, a pan-Africanist icon, has for years cast a shadow over the impoverished Sahel state, fuelling its reputation for turbulence and bloodshed. Read More...
This past Friday marked exactly thirty-four years since the shocking killing of Burkina Faso's then President, Thomas Sankara, described by his followers as the African Che Guevara.
Sankara, a Pan-African, was shot dead aged 37 by… Read More...
The trial of the alleged perpetrators of the assassination, including his former friend Blaise Compaore who succeeded him as president and went on to rule for 27 years, opens Monday in the capital Ouagadougou. Read More...
It will be nearly 34 years to the day since Sankara was gunned down during a putsch led by an erstwhile comrade and close friend -- one of the most shocking episodes in a country well-versed in political brutality. Read More...
Sankara took power in the Sahel state in 1983, renaming the country the following year from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means “land of the honest men”. Read More...
The landlocked country has been battered for the past six years by jihadist attacks from neighbouring Mali -- the epicenter of a brutal insurgency that began in 2012 and has also hit Niger. Read More...
Armed assailants killed about 100 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, in what was the country’s deadliest attack in years. Read More...